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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: top 300 quotes
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Death (n.) is nature's expert advice to get plenty of life.
Death (n.) is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Life (n.) is the childhood of our immortality.
Life (n.) is earned only by conquering it each day anew.
Life (n.) is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
Life (n.) is an early death when it is a useless life.
Life (n.) is contrasted with its opposite in that all that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity while all that is over with it inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.
Life (n.) is but a preparation for what there is to come.
The Spiral (n.) is the true path of progress, with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Love (n.) is a thing which one who is unable to do, must learn to flatter.
Love (n.) is an ideal thing whereas marriage a real thing... a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Love (n.) does not dominate... it cultivates.
Love (n.) grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.
Love (n.) is a thing where we are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
to Love (n.) is to be brimming with confidence. When confidence is missing, then the most beautiful flower in love's garland is missing.
Love (n.) is, along with desire, the spirit’s wings to great deeds.
Love (n.) is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing...
Love (n.) is unidirectional; if I love you, what business is it of yours?
Happiness (n.) is finding peace in one's home.
Happiness (n.) is found by a reasonable man through practicing moderation.
Happiness (n.) is unachievable until one's vague striving has itself marked out its proper limitations.
Happiness (n.) is always there. One need only learn how to grab hold of it.
History (n.) is written by sin while goodness remains silent.
History (n.) is uncertain in such a way that not all that is presented to us as history has really happened... and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us..
History's (n.) best benefit is the enthusiasm which it excites.
Patience (n.) is just a less fancy name for hope.
Progress (n.) is never straight. Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
Progress (n.) is incapable of pausing to take a breath. He who moves not forward, goes backward.
Progress (n.) does not follow a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Progress (n.) is most extraordinary when approached blindly. One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
Progress (n.) is a matter of means; not just of ends. It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal... each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise..
Health (n.) is crucially important to each of us since the soul is forced to see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
Mathematics (n.) is incapable of removing any prejudices and softening any obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.
Mathematics (n.) is wrongly thought to yield infallible conclusions. In reality it is infallible in nothing other than identity... that is, when we take two times two, 'four' is not a conclusion and it does not represent anything new at all. It is merely a summation.